8 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
4027 | Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver] |
4029 | Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver] |
14629 | If we are told the source of necessity, this seems to be a regress if the source is not already necessary [Blackburn] |
14529 | If something underlies a necessity, is that underlying thing necessary or contingent? [Blackburn, by Hale/Hoffmann,A] |
4042 | Metaphysics requires the idea of people (speakers) located in space and time [Davidson] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
4041 | Sentences held true determine the meanings of the words they contain [Davidson] |